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5. A farm woodlot of 200 acres would furnish an occupation for farm 

 operators during the winter and should provide an annual income. 



6. Purchase of land in many parts of the county for the production of 

 timber would make a good investment. 



7. Timber production should receive every encouragement, because it 

 would increase the demand for labor during the winter months. 



DAIRYING. 



1. Dairying is the basis of farming in the county. 



2. In most sections the dairy market depends largely on local con- 

 sumption of whole milk and cream. This demand is fairly constant, and 

 an increased production would have to be shipped out or sold as butter. 



3. Dairymen within hauling distance of milk plants at Bellows Falls 

 and Brattleboro, Vt., have a market for some increase in production. 



4. The average feed cost of producing milk on forty farms with five or 

 more cows per farm was $1.49 per hundred pounds, which is equal to 60 

 per cent of the average price received at the co-operative milk plants. 



5. Dairymen in those sections dependent on local demand for a market 

 should not expand their business unless they are assured of a market for 

 their milk. 



6. Dairymen who can market their milk through the established milk 

 plants are encouraged to increase their production by better feeding and 

 improvement in the quality of their herds. 



POULTRY. 



1. Farm sales of eggs could be greatly increased between August and 

 January, and still only supply local demand. 



2. Egg prices from November to January are nearly twice those from 

 February to July. 



3. Feed requirements per pound of gain increase rapidly with increase 

 in weight of bird. 



4. Roosters not required for breeders should be sold as broilers when 

 weighing about 2\ pounds. Farmers had 15,000 roosters on farms 

 October i, 1924, weighing about 5 pounds each. 



5. Pullets should be depended on for egg production. 



6. General farmers are advised to purchase 300 to 350 day-old chicks 

 from reliable hatcheries between March 15 and April 20, to sell off the 

 cockerels, to cull pullets when weighing about 2\ pounds, and to keep 

 from 100 to 150 pullets as a laying flock. 



APPLES. 



1. Local demand is now the chief market for apples produced in the 

 county. 



2. Commercial producers must depend largely on Boston as a market. 



3. Total production of apples in the United States is not likely to in- 

 crease materially in the next ten years. Demand in the United States 

 for apples should remain about the same as at present. 



4. Apple production at prices received for the 1923 crop should prove 

 profitable to growers on favorable sites. 



5. Apple prices were very low for the 1922 and 1923 crop, and are not 

 likely to be so low when present plantings come into bearing. 



6. Plantings of at least 500 permanent apple trees each are encouraged 

 on favorable sites, especially in the southeastern part of the county. 



